Hitler’s Stealth Fighter Could Have Dropped A Nuclear Bomb In NYC

Nazis or aliens or Nazi aliens are back and they have invaded Northrop Grumman’s top secret grounds in California, where engineers have been testing the surprising anti-radar capabilities of the Horten 2-29. The results: It could have changed everything.

Germany lost the Battle of Britain partly thanks to the British radar. The fat baton-bearing lunatic and chief of the Luftwaffe Hermann Göring turned to the Horten brothers to develop something that would give the German air force superiority. They came up with the most advanced plane of the war, one that surpassed everything else out there by three decades but fortunately never had the time to be produced in any kind of significant numbers: The Horten 2-29, a plane unlike anything else out there, which almost looks alien in its design.

Northrop Grumman’s black-op engineers—who usually work in top secret USAF projects like the B-2 Stealth Bomber, which is the heir of the Ho 2-29′s design—analyzed the remains of the only surviving plane, reconstructed it, and tested its stealth capabilities. Yes, it’s probably not the first time they have done that, but this time they did it for a National Geographic.

As it turns out, Hitler had a stealth fighter in the Ho 2-29. Thanks to the use of wood and carbon coating—which increased its radar absortion—jet engines integrated into the fuselage, and its blended surfaces, the plane could have been in London eight minutes after the British radar system detected it. In comparison, other planes took 19 minutes since detection to target, which gave the RAF fighter enough time to scramble and hunt down the bastards.

The bad news is that this plane could have completely changed the course of the war if Germany only had one or two extra years of lead time. Not only in the fight against Britain, but also against the US: Based on the Ho 2-29, the Horten brothers had another design for a intercontinental bomber, the Ho 18. This 142-foot wingspan bomber was submitted for approval in 1944, and it would have been able to fly from Berlin to NYC and back without refueling, thanks to the same blended wing design and six BMW 003A or eight Junker Jumo 004B turbojets. As the documentary shows, had the Nazis extended the war in 1946 and developed the atomic bomb as planned, this plane could have been their Enola Gay.

The good news: That’s a lot of ifs, the Allies decided to invade Normandy soon enough, and we are all here without wearing red bands and funny moustaches.

Life is good, people, life is good. [Fight Global]